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How can I freshen my breath?
Drs Chris and Xand van Tulleken want to know what they can do about bad breath.
29 Apr 2025,·28 mins
Anthony Fauci on a medical career navigating pandemics and presidents
Dr Anthony Fauci discusses his career spanning the worlds of medicine and politics.
29 Apr 2025,·30 mins
Plant-Based Meat Alternatives
Are plant-based meat alternative products really the healthier option?
24 Apr 2025,·24 mins
Series 23
Love Neurons
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain get giddy on the chemistry of love.
26 Apr 2025,·28 mins
30/4/25 Welsh community food strategy, British-grown pulses, biostimulant for wheat
New community food strategy for Wales.
30 Apr 2025,·14 mins
Series 32
Nature's Shapes - Dave Gorman, Sarah Hart and Thomas Woolley
Brian Cox and Robin Ince reveal the hidden codes behind the shapes we see in nature.
19 Feb 2025,·42 mins
What would cuts to Nasa mean for space science?
Reaction to White House proposals to cut funding for Nasa and a future asteroid fly past
24 Apr 2025,·29 mins
Weighing the world's forests
The space mission to better understand how forests affect climate change on Earth.
29 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Can we feed everyone?
We ask leading agricultural experts about global food security
25 Apr 2025,·31 mins
Frozen Planet II
Frozen Planet II: 6
An immersive audio experience from Frozen Planet II.
17 Oct 2022,·30 mins
10. Einstein's Brain
Dr Geoff Bunn discusses the impact of neurology on how we understand ourselves today.
18 Nov 2011,·15 mins
Series 3: Exercise
S3. Ep 8 - Activity Revolution
The Van Tulleken twins explore the science of exercise and the dangers of inactivity.
06 Feb 2024,·28 mins
Sixty Years of the Scottish Wildlife Trust
Rachel Stewart speaks to Dr Kenny Taylor at the Montrose Basin about 60 years of the SWT
30 Apr 2025,·29 mins
The End
Robin Ince on Writing the End of the Universe – if indeed it does end.
24 Jun 2024,·42 mins
Are dams still worth it?
Dams transformed Thailand’s economy. Now, a warming world puts that progress in jeopardy.
27 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Wet market SARS CoV-2 origins revisited
Scientists find yet more data from early Covid to suggest zoonotic cross-over as origin.
24 Apr 2025,·35 mins
Rerouting the Shropshire Way
Clare meets a group of passionate walkers responsible for redesigning the Shropshire Way.
13 Feb 2025,·24 mins
Tackling bias in health
We meet the solution-seekers trying to make healthcare more equal
29 Apr 2025,·23 mins
Birch Tapping, Granite, and the Highland Ultra
Mark Stephen and Rachel Stewart with stories from the great outdoors.
26 Apr 2025,·91 mins
8. The Terminator
Musk fears a 'Terminator future', where robots destroy humans. So why is he creating AI?
08 Apr 2025,·28 mins
The People's Forest
How Epping Forest was fought for, and saved by, the people of East London.
Unstoppable: Kura Paul-Burke
Kura Paul-Burke is combining Māori knowledge with marine science to save our ocean
28 Apr 2025,·26 mins
Kenya believe it?
The Unexpected Elements team visits Nairobi, Kenya.
25 Apr 2025,·49 mins
Hyphae and High-wire
We visit a farmer and circus performer growing shitake mushrooms in Pembrokeshire.
27 Apr 2025,·22 mins
Modern Understanding
John Lanchester's 'The Wall', a drama of survival in a world reshaped by rising seas.
25 Apr 2025,·90 mins
Set in Concrete
Our civilisation is based on concrete. Can we build in a cleaner way?
11 Apr 2025,·53 mins
Cancer Research in Wales
Adam Walton explores cancer research in Wales.
29 Apr 2025,·29 mins
Introducing What’s Up Docs? With Chris and Xand van Tulleken
Drs Chris and Xand are on a mission to help us take better care of ourselves.
30 Apr 2025,·30 mins
5: The Future
The final part of a thought-provoking book questioning overdiagnosis in medicine.
21 Mar 2025,·14 mins
Gwen Adshead - Four Questions about Violence
Can we change violent minds?
In her final Reith Lecture, Dr Gwen Adshead asks if we can change violent minds.
17 Dec 2024,·57 mins
